IOSIF KIRÁLY
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IOSIF KIRÁLY
In this project I have attempted, with the help of photography, to make sections of different personal situations and experiences that happened a longer or a shorter time ago. Reconstructions are compound poly-perspective images and each snapshot acts as a byte of information and memory (the time code of the camera being visible). The fact that these snapshots are taken approximately from the same spot (location), but at different moments (after periods of minutes, days, months, years), gives a spatial coherence but temporal discontinuity to the final image. “…we tend to think of memories as snapshots from family albums that, if stored properly, could be retrieved in precisely the same condition in which they were put away. But we now know that we do not record our experiences the way a camera records them. Our memories work differently. We extract key elements from our experiences and store them. We then recreate or reconstruct our experiences rather than retrieve copies of them. Sometimes, in the process of reconstructing we add on feelings, beliefs, or even knowledge we obtained after the experience. In other words, we bias our memories of the past by attributing to them emotions or knowledge we acquired after the event.” 1 Reconstruction is influenced by several factors such as the context where it occurs, the emotional state in the moment of remembering and experiences accumulated from the moment the event took place until the moment it is remembered etc. Thus, some details can be given more importance than others. Some elements can be highlighted in time whereas others can diminish or even fade out being replaced with elements taken from ulterior happenings or even indirectly experienced events such as information received from mass-media or other sources and took as our own at a subconscious level. Iosif Király 1) Daniel L. Schacter, The Seven Sins of Memory - How the Mind Forgets and Remembers, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001, p.9 |